What’s in for them anyway?
Sex. Scandals. Politics. War. Fights. Gossips… and much more. These are the most read and talked about topic in the local communities. Yes?
No! I personally don’t feel that way. All the above topics are discussed by the wannabes. Yes, that’s how I would like to call them. They’re either deprived of sex and hence tries to release their fantasy in blogs and forums, since mIRC is almost non-existence these days for them to chat with the sweet-young-things, or these people are simply too cocky and has too much a mind of their own. They hate to be left out in the popular or happening group of the community and feel defensive when things aren’t going as they’d wanted it to be.
Personally, I’ve been around communities, forums and the passe chatrooms (e.g. Alamak chats and mIRC) for too many years. One thing I’ve observed since 20 years ago is the changes that happens around such social media channels. (Yes! Social Media has been around for almost 30 years! Its’ really nothing new.)
People come and go. They grow old or tired of one community, they move on to the next. Likewise, I’ve been moving around so many of such communities, that I’d lost track of which I’d once been active in. If one isn’t happy with a community, they can simply choose to leave. No one is stopping them. Unless of course, they’re either employee of that community or they need that community for some reasons that’s of beneficial to them.
Looking at the kind of scandals and comments in the social media scene in Singapore these days, I find it rather amusing.
From the immature conflict between the two pioneering Asia blog networks in Singapore, to the issue of bloggers being shallow, to the scandal of a girl being molested by a friend, and there’s the recent fight between the two star bloggers and now a fight of being in and out of a group.
Perhaps I’m too old for such amusement. I would be lying if I’d said I didn’t enjoy following these stories, and I had laughed at many comments and how others reacted and is reacting to them.
I would like to ask: What’s in for them? Them referring to those who likes to add oil to the fire or even light up the match to start a fire. Are they like what I’d described earlier in this post, wannabes?
J.
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